Gallery: Pakistani girls dream of peace

AAMIR QURESHI, AFP/Getty Images10.06.2013

An auto-rickshaw carries Pakistani female students beside the school of child activists Malala Yousafzai, in Mingora, the capital of Swat Valley. Malala, who survived being shot by the Taliban last year, has become a global ambassador for education.

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Pakistani students arrive at a girls school in Mingora, the capital of Swat Valley. In Malala Yousafzai’s hometown in Pakistan, school friends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize this week — but they dream in secret, under pressure from a society deeply ambivalent about the teenage activist.AAMIR QURESHI
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Pakistani policeman stand guard as students leave the school of child activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban on Oct. 9 last year. Historically, in battles for social change, it is mostly young blood spilled.AAMIR QURESHI
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In Malala Yousafzai’s hometown in Pakistan, school friends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize this week. The prize has never been awarded to a young person, or to a movement of young people for social change.AAMIR QURESHI
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In Malala Yousafzai’s hometown in Pakistan, friends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced Oct. 11. Malala, who survived being shot by the Taliban last year, has been feted by celebrities and politicians in the Western world.AAMIR QURESHI
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In Malala Yousafzai’s hometown in Pakistan, school friends hope to see the teen activist win the Nobel Peace Prize. She survived being shot by the Taliban last year.AAMIR QURESHI
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In Malala Yousafzai’s hometown in Pakistan, school friends hope to see the teen activist win the Nobel Peace Prize. She survived being shot by the Taliban last year. If she wins, she will accept on behalf of the student-led Soweto Uprisings, the Tiananmen Square protests, sit-ins for civil rights, antiwar protests and the Arab Spring, and so many other battles.AAMIR QURESHI
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In Malala Yousafzai’s hometown in Pakistan, school friends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize this week. Since the attempt on her life almost one year ago today, Malala has made a miraculous recovery, and become a global symbol for girls’ education.AAMIR QURESHI
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An auto-rickshaw carries Pakistani female students beside the school of child activists Malala Yousafzai, in Mingora, the capital of Swat Valley. She blogged under a pseudonym for the BBC about her struggle to attend school, knowingly in defiance of Taliban law; she survived a bullet to the head, and told the UN that it would take more than a bullet to silence her.AAMIR QURESHI
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Pakistani students sit in an auto-rickshaw as they leave the school of child activist, Malala Yousafzai, in Mingora, the capital of Swat Valley. In Yousafzai’s hometown, friends hope to see the teen activist win the Nobel Peace Prize this week.AAMIR QURESHI
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In Malala Yousafzai’s hometown in Pakistan, school friends hope to see the teen activist win the Nobel Peace Prize. She survived being shot by the Taliban last year, but some worry she is too young to handle the responsibility of being a Nobel laureate.AAMIR QURESHI
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Malala Yousufzai, 15, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan last fall. She underwent skull reconstruction and ear surgery.Uncredited
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